Awards and Research

Congratulations to faculty members in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry who have received awards and held prestigious positions.

 

Year 
Faculty Member
Award
 
 
 
2026
2023
Trushar Patel
Chair and Executive Committee Member, Awards Committee, Biophysical Society of Canada
2026
2023
Trushar Patel
Early Career Committee, Biophysical Society, USA
2025
2022
Trushar Patel
Chair, Communications and Publications Committee, Canadian Society of Molecular Biosciences
2025
2022 
Paul Hayes
Director of Subject Divisions, Canadian Society for Chemistry
2025
2019 
Paul Hayes
Tier 1 Board of Governors Research Chair in Organometallic Chemistry
2024
Wayne Lippa
2024 Board of Governors Teaching Chair
2024
Trushar Patel
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, FRSB (United Kingdom)
2023
Stacey Wetmore
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair – Computational Chemistry
2023
Trushar Patel
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair – RNA and Protein Biophysics
2023
Paul Hayes
Specially Appointed Professor (Hokkaido University)
2023
2017
Stacey Wetmore
Tier 1 Board of Governors Research Chair in Origins and Explorations 
2023
Stacey Wetmore
CFI – John R. Evans Leaders Fund
2023
Borries Demeler
Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
2023
Michael Gerken
American Chemical Society Fellow
2023
Trushar Patel
Speaker Research Award UofL
2023
2015 
Paul Hayes
Associate Editor of RSC Advances
2022
Laura Keffer-Wilkes
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Scholar Award
2022
Trushar Patel
New Investigator Award from the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences
2022
Trushar Patel
Young Investigator of the Biophysical Society of Canada
2022
Trushar Patel
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC (United Kingdom)
2022
Stacey Wetmore
Elected to the Board of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
2021
Michael Gerken
Elected Chair of the Division of Fluorine Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ASC)
2021
Susan Findlay
Excellence in Teaching Award
2021
Stacey Wetmore
Ingrid Speaker Research Award
2021
Stacey Wetmore
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry 
2021
Paul Hayes
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitational Fellowship (Long-term)
2019
Borries Demeler
T. Svedberg Prize 2019 - AUC 2019 New Zealand
2019
Greg Patenaude
ULSU Teaching Excellence Award (only person to win it two times)
2019
Stacey Wetmore
Co-Editor in Chief, Canadian Journal of Chemistry
2018
Borries Demeler
Fulbright Specialist Fellow, Helsinki, Finland
2018
Borries Demeler
Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
2018
Borries Demeler
2025 Canada 150 Research Chair for Biophysics
2018
Stacey Wetmore
Chemical Institute of Canada Fellowship
2017
2006
Stacey Wetmore
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Computational Chemistry
2016
Paul Hayes
Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry
2016
Stacey Wetmore
Australian Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (AATACC) International Fellow 
2013
Greg Patenaude
ULSU Teaching Excellence Award
2012
Roman Przybylski
American Oil Chemists' Society -
Timothy L. Mounts Award
2011
Roman Przybylski
Alberta Food for Health Award -
A Premier's Award
2010
Paul Hayes
Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations -
Distinguished Academic Early Career Award
2009
Paul Hayes
Alberta Innovates New Faculty Award